kevin d. watkins

OLEAN — With seven COVID-19 deaths reported, Monday was one of the deadliest days of the coronavirus pandemic in Cattaraugus County. The COVID-19 deat...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County suffered five COVID-19 deaths since Friday — one Saturday and four on Monday, health officials reported. There have now bee...

OLEAN — More than 100 Cattaraugus County residents who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have contracted the coronavirus — they are known as brea...

For the second straight day Cattaraugus County reported 16 new COVID-19 cases on Friday as the total number of active cases crept toward 100. There we...

Schools across Cattaraugus County are preparing for students returning to classrooms this September with the latest COVID-19 precautions in place. The...

On Tuesday the Times Herald reported that Cattaraugus County’s contractor for spraying mosquito larvicide over the area had been delayed because of su...

Folks in Olean and along the Allegheny River Valley are used to mosquitoes being a summer nuisance — with some years worse than others. But the summer...

OLEAN — Area residents’ mosquito complaints to the Cattaraugus County Health Department are on the rise. “We’re getting a lot of complaints about the ...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County’s COVID-19 count inched up by two more residents who received positive test results on Tuesday. There have now been 5,761 r...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Health Department reported a single new case of COVID-19 on Wednesday. That pushed the total number of residents diagno...

There had not been six days without a report of at least one new COVD-19 case in Cattaraugus County since early in the pandemic — in March 2020. Frida...

OLEAN — No new COVID-19 cases were reported again on Monday by the Cattaraugus County Health Department, while there was one new case reported in Alle...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County reported no new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the second day in a row there were no positives in testing for the virus. There w...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County reported only one new COVID-19 case on Monday. There have now been 5,674 county residents diagnosed with COVID-19. The coun...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Board of Health has levied a $500 fine against an Olean restaurant for repeat violations involving employees not wearin...

OLEAN — While new Cattaraugus County COVID-19 cases have plateaued in the 20-a-day range, and the rate of vaccinations increase, the danger of new inf...

It was one year ago today that the first Cattaraugus County resident was confirmed with COVID-19. A woman from the northwest corner of the county with...

OLEAN — Thursday marked the one-year anniversary since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control labeled the coronavirus a pandemic. Cattaraugus County dec...